Let's save Kates life.

It’s rare to find a person so wholly committed to helping others. It’s even harder to find one who gives without expectation, who cares without reason, and who is always there no matter what personal struggles they themselves are facing.

Kate Callaghan is one of those people. As a holistic nutritionist, wellness advocate, and above all, a mother of two, her life is dedicated to the pursuit of others.

But now, Kate needs your help.

Last week this beautiful, healthy, vibrant thirty-five year old was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer that has spread to her lymph nodes and liver. Kate was told, effectively - there isn't anything to be done. She isn’t eligible for surgery, and while chemotherapy or radiation will prolong her life, any treatment from here is palliative.

Not if we can help it.

There are options, but they are unfunded options and Kate doesn’t have medical insurance. The most viable option is an alternative, evidence based healing centre, backed by science.

The Hope4Cancer healing centres are based in Mexico and Thailand, and both cost upwards of US$35,000 (NZ$56,000).

That this is happening to someone so young, so health-conscious, is unjust. But what’s even more unjust is the fact that Kate was initially told not to bother with testing, she would be fine. It was only after a second opinion and a push for a mammogram, was she reluctantly granted a referral for ‘piece of mind.’

Now, this is Kate’s one chance, her only chance. Her children, Ed and Olivia, are two and four. She needs to be here for them as they grow, here for them as they graduate university, as they marry and move on to adulthood. She needs to be here for her husband Aaron, she needs to be here to finish the landscaping on her house and she needs to be here to pick out the goddamn curtains for the lounge.

While we know that everyone faces hardship and obstacles in their lives - some as great as this, others not - this page isn’t meant to place a higher value on Kate’s struggle, only to highlight what she means to us. Please give what you can, but if you can’t, know your love and support towards the Callaghan family is received with equal gratitude.

Please help us give Kate, Aaron, Olivia and Ed this chance as Kate begins the fight for her life.